Re: PR_GetThreadID() fails with SEGV

Wan-Teh Chang wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Jon Leighton<[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm using NSPR 4.8 on Solaris 5.10, and OpenSolaris 5.11, and if I call
>> PR_GetThreadID(PR_GetCurrentThread()), it fails with SEGV.  The same code
>> works fine on a number of other platforms.  Is there an issue with
>> PR_GetThreadID() on Solaris/OpenSolaris, or something different I need to
>> do?  Thanks for any help.
> 
> PR_GetThreadID() is a deprecated function because its return type
> PRUint32 is too small to hold a native thread ID on some platforms
> (if pthread_t is 64-bit).

Thanks Wan-Teh.  Is there a new NSPR function to replace 
PR_GetThreadID(), or should I just make due without?

- Jon

> 
> But that means the problem should be a truncation of the native
> thread ID, not a crash due to SEGV.
> 
> Since I don't have access to Solaris, I don't know what the problem
> is.  I inspected the source code and didn't see anything wrong or
> Solaris-specific.
> 
> Wan-Teh